blog carnival: looking back

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

this post is a part of 20SB's looking back blog carnival, and Ben & Jerry's is awarding free ice cream to lucky bloggers and readers, and um, i love ice cream so i'm participating!

my task was this: look back through my blog posts and choose one that i wrote during my first two months of blogging that shows my mindset and outlook from the onset of my blog. so i got to work looking through some early posts and i realized one thing...

i had absolutely no idea what the hell i was doing.

but one gem of a post stuck out for me that i think perfectly sums up what i was having to immediately deal with upon starting this blog.

so here's my 8th postever out of the 400+ i've written that was originally published on january 8, 2008.

I really like that you have decided to start reading my blog. I especially like when you call me to tell me that I have a typo. That's fun!

I would like to clarify one thing with you. I promise I know how to capitalize and punctuate correctly. Because I am choosing not to capitalize on my blog, I also promise that I am not contributing to the dumbing down of America. Not nearly enough people read my blog to start a worldwide anti-capitalization movement.

Also, if you could please alert your sister, my "tiajo", that by my blogging I am not hurting anyone, let alone myself. I will be very careful not to put too much personal information out onto the internet.

I hope this calms your overprotective motherly instinct. You are the best mommy ever, and I love you very much.

Your Daughter,

Alexa

i think i've come a long way - not so much in the voice and tone of my writing because i think that has been pretty consistent, but i've definitely blown past the "careful not to put too much personal information out on the internet" - oops. that and i now have readers/commenters that aren't my family members and childhood friends.

i went from for so long not sharing who i was in real life to shouting it from the rooftops, attaching this blog and my twitter to my full name while turning this simple hobby of mine into an unexpectedly great networking, career and friend making opportunity. solidifying my passion for social media.

but guess what? i still don't capitalize, and that's never going to change.

My stepdad and one of my coworkers found my blog...which doesn't make me happy. Because they are probably the two people who drive me the most insane in my life.

My aunt and my sister also read, but I told my mom that I didn't think it was a good idea for her to read as she would FREAK OUT about anything I might say about drinking. It is a little censoring knowing that certain people read, though. Which I hate.

I haven't changed a bit re: what I said to you, but I'm glad you still like us to read your blog (even though my eyes often roll while reading it)! You DO write well, though, and I still love you lots!

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Some would say I'm a 36-year-old marketing professional who has been blogging about her life in Cleveland since '08. I would say I love cooking, drinking bubbles and wearing black. My Mom (and husband) would say I'm just nuts.